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Senior Director, Technical Writing
Technical WriterTechnical WriterFull TimeRemoteTeam 1,001-5,000Since 2013H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn
Location
United States
Posted
91 days ago
Salary
$195K - $293K / year
Bachelor Degree12 yrs expEnglishCloudCyber Security
Job Description
• Develop and own the enterprise-wide content experience strategy, aligned with product, engineering, customer success, and support objectives.
• Establish a long-term vision for documentation quality, scalability, and automation, with a focus on enhancing customer value and driving product adoption.
• Create and champion content standards, style guides, governance frameworks, and accessibility guidelines.
• Lead innovation in content delivery—AI-assisted content, personalization, structured authoring, and embedded product content.
• Manage, mentor, and grow a diverse global team, including technical writers.
• Build resource plans, talent strategies, and career frameworks to scale a world-class content organization.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, inclusion, quality, and customer empathy across all content disciplines.
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering, UX, and Support teams to align content priorities with product roadmaps.
• Influence product development by representing user documentation needs early in the lifecycle.
• Collaborate with customer-facing teams to ensure documentation reflects and anticipates customer needs.
• Oversee the design and optimization of content systems, including CMS/CCMS platforms, documentation portals, localization platforms, and authoring workflows.
• Ensure documentation quality, versioning accuracy, and timely delivery across complex and rapidly evolving product lines.
• Implement metrics and feedback loops to measure content effectiveness, discoverability, and user engagement.
• Drive continuous improvement of content workflows using automation, AI, reusable components, structured content models, and scalable governance.
• Ensure every content asset—API references, onboarding guides, troubleshooting docs, tutorials, videos—supports frictionless product adoption.
• Champion documentation as a first-class product experience, not an afterthought.
• Advocate for documentation-driven development practices across engineering and product teams.
Job Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in technical writing, documentation leadership, content strategy, or related fields.
- 7+ years of experience managing large, distributed teams of writers, content strategists, and editors.
- Proven success leading documentation organizations in a technical, engineering-heavy, or developer-facing environment.
- Strong cross-functional leadership, communication, and executive presence.
- Demonstrated ability to scale content processes across multiple product lines in fast-moving organizations.
- Strong background in cybersecurity or other technology domains, with experience documenting business-focused SaaS products, cloud platforms, or AI/ML technologies.
- Expertise in modern documentation tooling, information architecture, structured authoring methodologies, and content lifecycle management.
- Demonstrated ability to scale content processes across multiple product lines in fast-moving organizations.
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, 401(k), Commuter, Health and Dependent FSA
- Unlimited PTO
- Industry-leading gender-neutral parental leave
- Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Sick Time
- Employee stock purchase program
- Disability and life insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Gym membership reimbursement
- Cell phone reimbursement
- Numerous company-sponsored events, including regular happy hours and team-building events.
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